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WHAT 

HOW 

WHY 

BY 

Qeorge Henr^ l^ole 

Author of Divine Selection, or The Survival 
of The Useful, etc. 



SECOND EDITION 
(Revised) 



N E W^ YORK 

THE NEW CHURCH BOARD OF PUBLICATION 

3 West Twencjr-Ninth Street 

1906 




UERARY of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 

APR 21 1906 

GoDyright Entry 

CLASS CL XXc. No. 

COPY B. 






Copyright, 1906 

by 

George Henry Dolb 



This publication is designed only for 
a brief and general introduction to its 
subject. 

The quick sale of the first edition 
and a continued demand have led to the 
preparation of this second and revised 
edition from entirely new plates. 

The Author. 



CONTENTS 



Introduction 
Dedication . 



THE NEW CHURCH 
I. WHAT . 



I. A New Revelation of Divine Truth 

z. The Word Opened 

3. The Second Coming op the Lord 

HOW 

I. The Law of Correspondence 

z. Application of the Law to the Word 

3. Things Heard and Seen 



WHY 

I. Its External Form 
z. Definite Doctrine . 
3. Its Growth 



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THE NEW CHURCH 
I 

WHAT 

IT may be thought, what need have 
we of a New Church? There are 
already too many denominations. 
We shall soon see that, though there are 
many denominations, there is need of 
the New Church now, and that its place 
is not filled by any other. 

The things for which the New Church 
stands are of such origin and character 
that it is a new church, having an orig- 
inal and a new beginning. It is a new 
era of Christian thought and life derived 
from a new dispensation of Divine truth 
from the Lord out of heaven. 

The relation of the New Church to 
other churches of Divine institution 
must be known that its nature may be 
comprehended. An illustration may 
quickly give the right idea of this. 



lo THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 

There have been four churches es- 
tablished by our Heavenly Father, — 
the Most Ancient Church, the Ancient 
Church, the Israelitish Church, and the 
first Christian or Apostolic Church. 

When the Ancient Church came to its 
end, and God desired to make a fuller 
preparation for His Advent, the Israel- 
itish Church was established. That this 
might be done, Israel was kept in bond- 
age in Egypt, and then led into the 
isolation of the wilderness for forty 
years, that a new church might take 
form and become permanent. The 
IsraeHtish Church was not a sed of the 
Ancient Church, nor was it derived 
from it. It was distindly new, being 
founded upon new revelations, which 
were the laws of Moses. The New 
Church is likewise new. 

Coming to more recent times, with 
which there is more familiarity, we know 
that when the Lord came upon the 
earth, the Israelitish Church was brought 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT ii 

to an end. A new dispensation was 
then instituted. It was founded upon 
truth newly revealed by the Lord, sub- 
sequently reduced to writing, and extant 
in the New Testament. The church 
then established by the Lord and His 
apostles is the Apostolic Church. 
Catholics, Methodists, Episcopalians, 
Presbyterians, Baptists, and Orthodox 
denominations in general are seds of 
the Apostolic Church. That church 
was not a division of the Israelitish 
Church, or a sed of it, nor was it 
derived from it. The seds of the Isra- 
elitish Church were the Pharisees, Sad- 
ducees, and Essenes. The Apostolic 
Church when established was an abso- 
lutely new church, coming in fulfill- 
ment of prophecy and founded upon 
newly revealed truth. It was a step 
higher than the Israelitish Church, 
and separated from it as one round 
of a ladder is distind from the one 
below it. 



12 THE NEW CHURCH — WHAT 

The New Church comes likewise in 
fulfillment of prophecy and at the end 
of the former or Apostolic Church. It 
is also a new dispensation, founded 
upon Divine truth newly revealed from 
the Lord out of heaven. 

Though the New Church is distinct 
from any former church, there is a cer- 
tain relation ; for each church came as a 
part of the Divine plan of human devel- 
opment. The successive churches are 
related as infancy, childhood, youth, and 
manhood, or as the roots, branches, 
leaves, flowers, and fruits of a tree. 
The New Church is the end for which 
all former churches existed, just as man- 
hood is the end of infancy, childhood, 
and youth. It is the fruit on the end of 
the branch. 

In the Israeli tish and Ancient 
Churches God was worshiped as an 
invisible God. In the Apostolic Church 
He was finally worshiped under the idea 
of three Persons. The New Church is 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 13 

to be the crown of all the churches that 
have been, because in it God will not be 
worshiped as an invisible God, nor 
under the idea of three Persons, but by 
means of newly revealed truth, the Lord 
Jesus is clearly seen to be " Emmanuel, 
which being interpreted is, God with 
us," the only God of heaven and earth, 
and as such He will be worshiped in the 
New Church. The Lord will be wor- 
shiped in the New Church as He is by 
the angels in heaven. Consequently the 
Lord and heaven will descend into the 
church on the earth and into the souls 
of mankind with greater light, love, and 
peace than ever before. 

Though the New Church is distinct as 
a church, it does not come in antagonism 
to former churches, but it is supple- 
mental. It comes as the Lord did, not 
to do away with the law, but to fulfil the 
law. It is established in fulfillment of 
prophecy, and is described in the Word 
as the New Jerusalem, which John saw 



14 THE NEW CHURCH—WHAT 

descending from God out of heaven. It 
is called by a new name, "New Jerusa- 
lem,'* which the Lord hath named. The 
name of this last new church is, there- 
fore, the Church of the New Jerusalem. 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 15 



/. A New Revelation of Divine Truth 

A new church is always accompanied 
by a new revelation of truth from God 
and the gathering together of a few who 
accept, preserve, and propagate the truth 
and life of it. The Most Ancient Church 
was openly instructed by angels, and so 
had perpetual revelation. The Ancient 
Church had a revelation, of which the 
book of " Jasher," referred to in yoshua, 
was a part. The Israelitish Church was 
given the Old Testament. The Apostolic 
Church had the New Testament. The 
New Church of to-day is likewise the 
conservator and propagator of a new 
revelation, confined to a few at first, but 
gradually to extend as the capacity to 
receive internal truth and form an internal 
church develops. 

God is a self-revealing Being. He did 
not create men to serve Him, but that 
He might serve them. From the begin- 



l6 THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 

ning He has given revelation of heavenly 
and Divine things that He might lift 
human kind into a higher and more 
blessed existence. Now in these later 
days He has made another revelation of 
a most complete character. This new 
revelation comprises many volumes. 
They may be classified under two heads. 
First, Exegetical Writings ; second, 
Supplementary Writings. The Exeget- 
ical primarily explain serially books of 
the Word. The Supplementary reveal 
fact and doctrine necessary to the state- 
ment and elucidation of the complete 
system of Divine truth. 

Among the Exegetical are the Arcana 
Ccelestia, which explains verse by verse 
Genesis and Exodus ; Apocalypse Revealed, 
which explains in a similar way the book 
of Revelation, and A Summary Exposition 
of the Internal Sense of the Prophets and 
Psalms, which is a serial but general 
explanation of these books by groups of 
verses. 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 17 

This class of the Writings explains 
fully the law according to which the 
Word is written, and applies the law for 
the uncovering of the internal sense of the 
Word, and shows the truth of the law, its 
workings, and its universality, together 
with the truth of the Word itself. 

Among the Supplementary works are 
Heaven and Hell, which is a revelation of 
fact and doctrine appertaining to the sub- 
ject ; Divine Love and Wisdom, which is 
a philosophical presentation of doctrine; 
Divine Providence, which is doctrinal and 
philosophical ; The True Christian Relig- 
ion, which is a compendium of Christian 
doctrine ; Conjugial Love, which treats of 
the Divinely intended relation of the 
sexes, and of the evils of violated order. 

These comprise the books most gener- 
ally recommended to those who have an 
interest in spiritual things, and desire to 
acquaint themselves with the subjedt. 

These with others are the Writings of 
the New Church. 



1 8 THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 



2, The Word Opened 

To the two on the way to Emmaus, 
"beginning at Moses and all the pro- 
phets/' the Lord "expounded * * in all 
the Scriptures the things concerning 
Himself." After His resurrection He 
appeared to His disciples and " opened 
their understanding, that they might 
understand the Scriptures." From these 
and like passages it was rightly taught 
by the Apostolic Church early in its 
history, and has always been believed 
quite generally, that the Scriptures have 
an internal, spiritual meaning. 

First, the new revelation sets forth 
this very, spiritual meaning. It explains 
the Word so that it may be fully 
understood and seen as a harmoni- 
ous presentation of the Infinite, Divine 
truth. 

Second, it is a revelation of spiritual 
fads and laws, which taken together 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 19 

constitute a complete system of all 
moral and spiritual dodlrine. 

The New Church is therefore, not a 
negative church, but a positive church, 
which has revelation of deeper, Divine 
truth. It comes not in the spirit of 
opposition, but affedtionately proclaim- 
ing the glad tidings of newly revealed 
truth that is the very ^* Comforter" 
which " shall guide you into all truth." 

The spiritual sense of the Word once 
having been known, and what was 
known having become lost, a school of 
critics has arisen saying that the Word 
is not the Word of God, but a history 
of his Word ; that it was written when 
superstition and ignorance were rife, and 
is consequently full of errors character- 
istic of those times and of the people 
who wrote it. The new revelation of 
truth shows that there is a serial spirit- 
ual sense in the Word running through 
it from beginning to end. It makes 
known the purpose for which the Word 



20 THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 

is written and the method of its compo- 
sition, from which standpoint there are 
no errors in the Word. The spiritual 
sense is not a vague, inferential, loose 
meaning, but it is related by a universal 
law to the letter of the Word with 
mathematical accuracy. In fad, the 
spiritual sense of the Word now 
revealed is related to the letter of the 
Word by a law of so high and Divine a 
charader that when understood it proves 
that "The Lord gave the Word," 
though "great was the company of 
those that published it." It shows it to 
be a book that only the Creator Him- 
self could frame. For it has an organ- 
ized internal, causing it to differ from 
any other book as much as a human 
body differs from a statue hewn from 
marble. 

The spiritual sense of the Word is 
related to the letter not artificially, but 
by a law that no man could invent, for it 
is the very law of creation itself. It is 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 21 

such a relation as exists between the 
lungs and the air, or the eye and the 
ether, or grief and tears, or joy and 
smiles, or the soul and the body. The 
law is profound and deep, yet simple 
and self-interpretive, when understood 
somewhat, because it is natural. In the 
light of it, the Word is seen to be an 
inexhaustible reservoir of Divine truth, 
the infinite truth itself, the veritable 
tabernacle of God wherein He dwells, 
and sends forth as from Urim and 
Thummim the light and love of heaven. 
Hence it is written that "the Word 
was God.^' 

In the light of the law of the relation 
between the spiritual meaning and the 
letter, the Word is known to be formed 
by the Lord for the very purpose that it 
may be His instrument through which 
He can be present with mankind on 
earth, and teach of Himself and heaven 
for all time. It is shown to be a form 
whereby the Lord conjoins angels and 



22 THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 

men to Himself. And now that the 
Word is completed and opened, the 
light that will come into the world will 
be many times that heretofore received. 
The Word, which was a sealed book 
because the law of its composition was 
not known, is now opened. Heretofore 
the faith of mankind has been like that 
of a child, which believes because the 
parent says so. Now the faith of the 
church is to be like that of a man who 
believes because he sees for himself that 
it is so. 

The New Church therefore stands not 
only for a new revelation of Divine 
truth from the Lord out of heaven, 
given in fulfillment of prophecy, but 
also for the entry intelledually into the 
things of faith, made possible through 
that revelation. The faith of the church 
on earth will no longer be a faith of 
darkness, but a faith of light. Faith 
will now be exalted from confidence to 
sight. 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 23 



J. TTie Second Coming of the Lord 

Now we are to state another thing in 
regard to what the New Church is that 
may seem surprising, but let us remem- 
ber that ^^ Great and marvellous are Thy 
works, Lord God Almighty.'' 

This new revelation of heavenly truth 
constitutes the Second Coming of the 
Lord. It is the promised " Comforter '^ 
that shall abide with us forever. It is 
the embodiment of the " spirit of truth '' 
that will guide into all truth, for the 
Word distinctly states that the Second 
Coming of the Lord would be such. It 
enables us to see no more ^^ through a 
glass darkly,*' but " face to face ; " and 
to know not only ^^ in part," but ^^ even 
as also I am known." Whereas we 
have walked by a faith that did not see, 
we shall now walk by a faith that sees. 
For the prophecy is now fulfilled, ^^ The 
time cometh when I will no more speak 



24 THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 

unto you in parables iparoimiais), but I 
will show you plainly of the Father/* 

Forty days after the crucifixion Jesus 
appeared to His disciples, and when He 
had blessed them, He was seen to 
ascend until the clouds enveloped Him. 
While they stood gazing steadfastly into 
the sky where He seemed to disappear, 
an angel stood by, and said that as they 
had seen Him ascend, so He would 
descend. From this some have thought 
that the Lord would come again in the 
material clouds and in a material way. 
To know how He was to come we must 
know how He ascended. 

The Lord after His crucifixion 
appeared not by assuming a material 
body, but by opening the vision to see 
Him in the spiritual world, for God is a 
Spirit. 

No angel or spirit can be seen by the 
natural eyes. Since the Lord appeared 
by opening the inner vision. He disap- 
peared by closing it. His apparent 



THE NEW CHURCH—WHAT 25 

ascension into the sky was an appear- 
ance from the gradual closing of the 
spiritual sight. When that was entirely 
closed, He disappeared. We may 
know this if we stop to think, for 
heaven is not up in the sky, but up in 
life. " The kingdom of God is within 
you." 

Now since the Lord ascended by 
closing the inner vision. He will come 
again in the same way — by opening the 
inner vision ; by rolling back the clouds 
that obscure the knowledge of Him. 

Further, that the Infinite might reveal 
Himself to the finite in verbal declara- 
tions, it was necessary that He should 
speak in terms of a language known to 
man. He was obliged to use words 
and ideas with which the finite is famil- 
iar. So in forming the Word that per- 
petually reveals Him, He took human 
words and ideas. Often He spoke not 
according to reality, but as things 
appeared to man. Otherwise there 



26 THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 

would have been no approach to man 
and no conjundion with him. The 
letter of the Word is therefore formed 
of words, language, and ideas taken 
from human minds. Such words, lan- 
guage, and ideas constitute the letter of 
the Word, which forms a covering of 
the thought and life of God within. It 
forms an approach of God to man, and 
necessarily veils the truth and life of 
God, who is within the Word as its 
internal. The letter of the Word when 
understood is like a cloud that receives 
and refleds the rays of the sun. The 
letter of the Word when not understood 
is the obscuring clouds of heaven, 
because then it obscures the heavenly 
things within and the Lord. The 
Second Coming of the Lord occurred 
through His coming in these clouds of 
heaven, the letter of the Word. There 
^^ this same Jesus,'' by removing mental 
clouds, and the consequent opening of 
man's vision to see Him in the letter of 



THE NEW CHURCH—WHAT 27 

the Word, comes again to abide with us 
forever. 

This is such a coming that two can be 
'Mn one bed," or ^^ grinding at the 
mill," or " in the same field," and one 
be ^* taken, and the other left." One 
may see in light like the lightning that 
^^ Cometh out of the east, and shineth 
even unto the West," while the other 
remains in outer darkness. 

The Second Coming of the Lord is 
spiritual, not physical. We must guard 
against having the same material concep- 
tions of the Second Coming of the Lord 
that the Jews had of His first advent. 
The Writings of the New Church 
reveal the Lord in the Word, both as to 
His Divinity and Humanity, and bring 
us face to face with Jesus Christ there. 
They .therefore constitute the Second 
Coming of the Lord to the world. 

The New Church is the last church to 
be established on the earth by the Lord, 
for in it is fulfilled all prophecy. There 



28 THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 

will be no need of another church, 
because all truth is now revealed and 
committed unto the promised church of 
the New Jerusalem. 

What, then, is the New Church ? 

The New Church stands, first, for a 
new revelation of all truth from the Lord 
out of heaven. Second, for the Divine 
Word opened, whereby it is seen to be 
a repository of infinite. Divine truth, and 
the means of conjoining men and angels 
to the Lord forever. Third, for the 
entry intellectually into the things of 
faith, life, heaven, and the Lord. 
Fourth, for the Second Coming of the 
Lord as already having taken place in 
the world through a new revelation of 
all Divine truth and of the Lord in 
the Word. Fifth, for the final church 
promised by the Lord, named by 
Him the ^^ New Jerusalem, ^' and 
described by John as the " New Jeru- 
salem coming down from God out 
of heaven." 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHAT 29 

Such stupendous claims as these, with 
a declaration of the church that it has the 
actual, rational, and spiritual evidence of 
its assertions, ought not only to arrest the 
attention of one here and there, but to 
move every one having a remnant of 
affection for the truth to a thorough, 
impartial, and prayerful investigation of 
the facts. 



II 



HOW 

IN ancient times, when the Lord 
desired to make His will known He 
chose an angel, filled him with His 
spirit and presence, and sent him on the 
Divine errand. Such a one is called in 
the Word ^^ the angel of the Lord." When 
by angels He could no longer well effect 
His purpose. He chose a prophet, and 
gave him what He should say, do, and 
write. When He desired to come on 
earth in the flesh at the first advent. He 
chose a woman to provide Him a body 
of flesh in which He might dwell, and 
reveal His nature. In more recent times, 
when He desired to break the seals of 
His Word, He chose a man, through 
whose mind and hand He might make 
known His new revelation. Emanuel 
Swedenborg was chosen for this purpose. 



THE NEW CHURCH—HOW 31 

Let us not think this exceptional. For 
also when the Lord desired to establish 
the Israelitish Church, He chose Moses, 
and instructed him, that he might teach 
and lead the people. Again, when He 
desired to establish the Apostolic Church, 
He chose the Apostles, instructed them, 
and sent them out to teach and to preach. 
When He desired any book of the Word 
to be written. He chose a man to write 
it. It is perfectly in accord with His 
known way that He should choose a man 
to pen the new revelation of truth for 
His last church. 

Swedenborg lived from 1688 to 1772. 
He was a devout man of profound learn- 
ing in science and philosophy. About 
1745 his spiritual sight was opened, as 
were the eyes of Elisha's servant when 
he was given to see the mountain round 
about Elisha full of horses and chariots ; 
and as John's were, when, in the Isle of 
Patmos, he saw the heavenly things of 
Revelation. But Swedenborg's vision 



32 THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 

was open longer and more fully. Though 
living in the body in this world, he at 
the same time for about twenty-seven 
years lived in the spiritual world, and 
conversed with spirits and angels there 
as one of their number. In this way he 
became acquainted with the order, laws, 
and life of the spiritual world, as we are 
with this world. This was a mode of 
further instrudion and preparation for 
the work that he was chosen to do. What 
Swedenborg wrote in pursuance of this 
preparation constitutes the new revelation 
of truth from the Lord out of heaven, 
and is commonly called the Writings of 
the New Church. They are not from 
himself, nor any man, spirit, or angel, but 
from the Lord alone through the instru- 
mentality of Swedenborg's mind and 
hand, which fad their charader fully 
attests. 



THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 33 



/. The Law or Correspondence 

The Word is written according to the 
law of relation between things natural 
and things spiritual. This relation is 
the law of Correspondence. According 
to it spiritual things flow into, communi- 
cate with, and sustain natural things. It 
is the very law according to which 
creation itself took place and is now 
sustained. 

This law when applied to the Word 
shows that the Word is written in pursu- 
ance of it, and is thereby so composed 
that all things of heaven and of God are 
in the Word. 

To expound this law adequately would 
require more space than we can here 
give. Possibly the briefest way to pre- 
sent an idea of it is by a general state- 
ment of its fundamental principles, and 
by giving a few illustrations of their 
application to the Word. 



34 THE NEW CHURCH—HOW 

First, there are two great divisions of 
the created universe, the natural world 
and the spiritual world. The natural 
world and its laws and particular forms 
are exadly like the spiritual world and 
its laws and particular forms, only with 
this difference, that the natural world is 
material while the spiritual world is 
spiritual. 

Let us illustrate in particular. In 
nature there is a sun that sends out heat 
and Hght. All nature is sustained by 
the sun. In the spiritual world there is 
a sun also. From it come heat and 
light; and all life in the spiritual world 
is sustained by it. But in the spiritual 
world love and wisdom proceeding from 
the Lord are the sun. The heat that 
flows from it is love ; its light is truth. 
So it is written, "The city has no 
need of the sun, neither of the moon, to 
shine in it; for the glory of God did 
lighten it, and the Lamb is the light 
thereof." The sun in nature is material. 



THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 35 

and its heat and light are material ; but 
in the spiritual world the sun is spiritual 
because God is a spirit, and the heat 
and light are spiritual because love and 
truth are spiritual. 

Again, we have conceived of the natu- 
ral world with its sun shining upon it as 
the very pidhire of the spiritual world 
with the Lord shining upon it with love 
and wisdom. Now think of the natural 
universe as the external clothing of the 
spiritual world, and that it is sustained 
by the spiritual world part for part, and 
the basis of the law of correspondence 
will be laid. For the natural world and 
its particular forms are but material 
clothing of corresponding spiritual 
forms or forces from which they 
exist. 

To illustrate, man has a material body 
in the natural world, sustained by heat 
and light from the sun. Within the 
material body part for part is the soul, 
made of spiritual substances, and per- 



36 THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 

petually bathed by the heat and light of 
the spiritual world, which are love and 
wisdom, from which affections and 
thoughts are derived. Yet while man's 
body is in nature sustained by heat and 
light from the sun, and his soul is in the 
spiritual world likewise under its sun, 
the spiritual body is within the material 
body giving life and power to it and to 
every part. In fad, the natural universe 
is an outbirth of the spiritual world, and 
is sustained by it, just as the body is 
formed and sustained by the soul 
within. 

So also just as the body is sustained 
from the soul, just as the natural world 
is sustained from the spiritual world, the 
spiritual world is sustained by the 
Lord. 

Now, that law of relation which exists 
between the soul and the body, between 
the spiritual world and the natural 
world, between the Lord and the spir- 
itual world ; that law of relation which 



THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 37 

exists between the Creator and all cre- 
ated things, by means of which life and 
power flow into created forms from the 
One Fountain of life, is the law of Cor- 
respondence. 



58 THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 



2, Application of the Law to the Word 

The law of Correspondence is best 
understood in its application. In a 
theme so vast, only a few brief and most 
limited illustrations can be given here. 
First we shall observe its application in 
particular instances, and then in a more 
general way. 

The natural body must have bread 
and water from the earth to sustain it. 
The spirit must have bread and water 
from the spiritual world to sustain it. 
The bread ^^ which cometh down from 
heaven, and giveth life unto the world," 
is love, from which alone we can have 
real life in our spirits. The water that 
becomes ^^ a well of water springing up 
into everlasting life,'' is truth from the 
Lord, which not only quenches the 
thirst for kno'Wledge, but also, like water, 
it washes from defiling evils, and makes 
the heart pure. We are momentarily 



THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 39 

dependent for true thoughts and good af- 
fections upon truth and love — the water 
and bread of the spirit — from the Lord. 
The spiritual body Hves from the spirit- 
ual world spiritually, just as the natural 
body lives from the natural world natur- 
ally. In short, nature with its particular 
forms and laws is a parable of the spiritual 
world of corresponding forms and laws, 
from which the former derives existence. 

In forming the Word, the Lord, who 
alone knew this relation because He 
created things and sustains them, fol- 
lowed this law. That is, He uses man*s 
names of natural things for His names 
of spiritual things, pursuant to the law 
of Correspondence. 

Bread sustains the body. Goodness, 
or love, from the Lord does the same 
for the soul. So the Lord uses our 
name of bodily food for His name of 
spiritual food. He calls His goodness 
bread. " This is that bread which came 
down from heaven.^' 



40 THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 

Water quenches thirst. It is the great 
cleansing element. Truth quenches 
mental thirst, and is the cleansing ele- 
ment of the soul, for only by knowledge 
can we control disease or shun evils 
Truth may be in the form of a great 
science, vast like a sea. It may be the 
truth current in our civil institutions or 
in our daily lives, when it is like rivers. 
It may come from a deep affedion for 
truth itself, and be like a perennial 
spring. It may come as if out of the 
atmosphere, like the dew, and refresh 
us in our daily toil. In fad, truth may 
take as many forms as water does upon 
the earth. So the Lord uses man's 
names of water in its various forms as 
His names of corresponding forms of 
truth. So He says, ^^ My dodrine shall 
drop as the rain, my speech shall distil 
as the dew, as the small rain upon the 
tender herb, and as the showers upon 
the grass/' "There is a river the 
streams whereof shall make glad the 



THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 41 

city of God/' "He hath founded it" ( the 
world) "upon the seas," from which it is 
evident that seas can mean nothing 
other than ultimate truths, or natural 
laws. 

There is no good thing that does not 
have its opposite, for evil is but per- 
verted good. The same word that is 
used to denote a good or a true thing is 
used also as the name of the opposite 
evil or falsity. The Lord said, ^^ Be- 
ware of the leaven of the Pharisees,'' by 
which He meant not their bread, but 
their evil ^' dodrine." 

Again, it is written, " The waters are 
come in unto my soul," but ^^ the Lord 
on high is mightier than the noise of 
many waters, yea, than the mighty waves 
of the sea." Here we notice that the 
waters and the sea mean the false 
dodrines of worldliness or materialism. 

Love is called fire, because love 
warms the heart. But the heart may be 
heated in rage, which heat is called hell 



42 THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 

fire. The context clearly shows whether 
a virtue is meant or that virtue per- 
verted, which is its opposite. So 
throughout the Word as to every jot 
and tittle. 

Now let us observe the law of Corre- 
spondence in its application to a con- 
tinuous portion of Scripture. 

Genesis is not intended to describe the 
creation of the'material heaven and earth. 
The earth herself is a book having her 
history written upon the pages of her 
strata more fully than pen can tell. 
Man can search out for himself the his- 
tory of the earth's formation. God 
makes revelation of such things as man 
can not find out for himself by search- 
ing. Though the letter of the Word 
contains the words of man in the 
form of allegory, parable, history, 
song, prophecy, and fad, it is from 
beginning to end a Divine parable 
refleding through its letter spiritual 
things. 



THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 43 

" In the beginning '' is the commence- 
ment of man's regeneration, for the 
Word treats of spiritual things. 

" God created the heaven and the 
earth " tells us of the two natures in 
every one, a heavenly nature in corre- 
spondence with heaven and an earthly 
nature in correspondence with the 
world. ^^ The earth was without form 
and void '^ is descriptive of the lower 
nature of man before regeneration. 
The creation of light is the spirit of 
God first wakening man to the con- 
sciousness of heavenly things, which 
light is spiritual. The first day is this 
first step in regeneration, the first 
awakening to the knowledge of the exist- 
ence of heavenly things. 

He divides ^^ the waters under the 
firmament from the waters above the 
firmament '^ when man distinguishes be- 
tween what is of the world and what is of 
heaven. This is the second day or second 
step in the creation of a spiritual man. 



44 THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 

This, "Let the waters under the 
heaven be gathered together unto one 
place, and let the dry land appear," is 
when man colleds knowledge of heav- 
enly things, his charader being yet 
unproductive as dry land. In this state 
he sees his needs, and commences to 
think and to ad religiously. The things 
that then first come into his charader, 
such as thoughts of right, good adions, 
and repentance, are the grass, the herbs, 
and the tree yielding fruits of repentance. 
This is the third state in regeneration. 

On the fourth day the sun, moon, and 
stars were created. The sun is God's 
love that then is felt in power. The 
moon is faith derived from that love as 
the moon derives its light from the sun. 
The stars are heavenly truths. The 
fourth state of regeneration is when 
love, faith, and heavenly truths are set 
in the firmament of the mind to shed 
their heat and light down upon the earth 
of man's nature. 



THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 45 

Then when these luminaries are set in 
the heaven of man's nature, the sun, 
which is love, to rule in his day states, 
and the moon and the stars, which are 
faith and knowledges of truth, to rule in 
his night states, truths become vivified, 
and he delights in them. Such truths 
are typified by the fishes of the sea and 
the fowls of the air, and by all that the 
waters brought forth. This is the fifth 
state of regeneration. 

The sixth day the beasts were created. 
These highest forms of animal life 
typify the affedions or living things in 
man. The sixth state of regeneration is 
when the afltedions are of faith, and are 
animated with love from the Lord. 

Then when man has gained dominion 
over the beasts of the field, the fowls of 
the air, the fishes of the sea, and every 
creeping thing, which are words for cor- 
responding mental things or affedions 
and thoughts, it is the seventh day, or 
the holy Sabbath of the spirit. The 



46 THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 

seventh day is when man has been cre- 
ated in the image and likeness of God 
by passing successively through these 
six stages. Then he is regenerated, and 
becomes thereby an image and likeness 
of God, and is in a state of peace and 
holiness represented by the Sabbath 
day. 

This is but the barest outline of what 
the first chapter of Genesis teaches with 
all detail and fullness. By the language 
there used, because nature is a parable 
of spiritual things, and ^^the invisible 
things of Him from the creation of the 
world are clearly seen, being understood 
by the things that are made,'^ the story 
opens with unfathomable depth and 
Divine beauty. This is true not only 
of Genesis, but throughout the Word, 
and it appears when we see how the 
Lord clothes spiritual ideas in the words 
and language of mankind. 

Take these same words and apply 
them to another part of the Word, and 



THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 47 

they will be observed to be used with 
the same definite meaning and in a 
similar way. 

Note the much discussed passage 
taken from the book of Jasher, belong- 
ing to a lost Word; " Sun, stand thou still 
upon Gibeon ; and thou, Moon, in the 
Valley of Ajalon." This was not a 
violation of natural law, the disarrange- 
ment of the universe for a small body of 
fighting men, but it is a parable of great 
spiritual facts as surely as is the story of 
the Prodigal Son. 

The battle Joshua was fighting stands 
for one that we fight in temptation. 
The sun and the moon standing still, is 
the continuance of love and faith in our 
struggle in spiritual night and battle that 
the vidory of redemption may be won. 

Again, we read in Acts, that on the 
day of Pentecost was the fulfillment of 
the prophecy of yoel, " The sun shall be 
turned to darkness, and the moon into 
blood, before that great and notable day 



48 THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 

of the Lord come." This did not mean 
the literal obliteration of the sun and 
moon, but the destrudion of love and 
faith, which did occur. 

Apply the same law of interpretation 
to Revelation where the same words 
occur, ^^ A woman clothed with the sun, 
and the moon under her feet, and upon 
her head a crown of twelve stars.'* We 
have no difficulty in interpreting man*s 
pidure of the state of the church or of 
the world. He pidures it as a woman 
half clad, clinging to a cross, looking up 
in agony to a heaven of black, lightning- 
riven clouds, with a few rays of light 
breaking through, and at her feet is the 
storm-beaten, threatening sea. We 
know that in this pi6lure the woman 
clinging to the cross and gazing upward 
is temptation. The clouds are our 
obscurity, the little light is our hope, 
the threatening sea is the world of sin. 
The pi6hire is man's own representation 
of the church as it is. Can we not like- 



THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 49 

Wise read the Lord's pidure of the 
church or state of faith that is to be ? 

Throw this pidure upon the blue sky- 
as the back ground, " A woman clothed 
with the sun, and the moon under her 
feet, and upon her head a crown of 
twelve stars," and you will have the 
Lord's representation of an enlightened 
faith and church. The woman is the 
Lamb's bride, the church, the mother by 
whom under God we are born again. 

The woman clothed with the sun is 
the church clothed with the love of God 
as its habit. The moon under her feet 
is the church established upon faith 
derived from love. The crown of 
twelve stars is the church possessed of 
all spiritual truths as regal principles. 
Continuing, the man child to be born is 
the church pregnant with manly princi- 
ples of life, or in other words, because 
God is a man, the man child is a com- 
plete system of Divine, human doctrine, 
which the truths of the New Church 



50 THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 

now revealed are. The dragon stand- 
ing before the woman to destroy the 
child is the world of sin. The flood of 
waters is false reasonings from the 
dragon, which is those who wage war 
against them ^^ which keep the com- 
mandments of God and have the testi- 
mony of Jesus Christ." That the 
woman is to be nourished in the wilder- 
ness, tells us that the church, by which 
is meant heavenly love and faith in 
human ministration, will be strength- 
ened in its obscurity and dearth until it 
shall grow strong and increase, prepara- 
tory to bringing mankind into a wise, 
loving, and holy life. 

Do we not now begin to see how the 
Word is written in God's language 
clothed in man's words ? Do we not 
see that it is possible for the Word to 
open to impenetrable depths and inex- 
pressible glory ? Do we not see that it 
may be so written as to flash forth all 
truth, not vaguely, but definitely ? For 



THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 51 

the Word is not only a parable in parts, 
but from beginning to end it is a con- 
tinued parable setting forth in perfed: 
order all heavenly truths. 

Some truths are clearly stated and seen 
in the letter of the Word. The obscure 
parts became translucent by the applica- 
tion of the law of Correspondence, ac- 
cording to which Scripture is written. 

The story of the Israelites in Egyptian 
bondage, their deliverance, the journey 
in the wilderness, and final entrance into 
the Promised Land, though historically 
true, is none the less a parable. The 
Lord desired to reveal His relation to 
mankind, to show the relation of truth 
and love to man obedient and disobedi- 
ent. For this purpose He chose the 
Israelites, and led them upon the great 
world as a stage for many years that He 
might dramatize the story of man's 
redemption. 

The Egyptians were posessed of only 
external and worldly knowledge. They 



52 THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 

stand for such life and thought as charac- 
terized them. The IsraeUtes in bondage 
to them represent our captivity to the 
evils in which the Egyptians were. The 
long journey to the Holy Land is our 
experience in life's battle against allure- 
ments and evils. The Hivites, Amorites, 
Hittites, and hostile tribes stand for the 
specific evils and falsities in us that 
respectively dominated those people. 
The wilderness is spiritual barrenness 
and discouragement, the failure of water 
and bread, is dearth of truth and love in 
the mind and heart. The Holy Land 
where David subdued the enemies of 
Israel, and Solomon reigned in glory, is 
our redemption when we have gained the 
victory over our spiritual enemies, and 
are come into the glory of the promised 
kingdom of the Lord. Such is the 
spiritual sense, which exists throughout 
the Word. 

The Gospels tell us of the incarnation 
of God in Christ, the life of the Lord on 



THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 53 

earth, His subjugation of the hells, His 
glorification and unition with the Father. 
It is all literally true and real. But it is 
also a parable of grand spiritual facts and 
laws. For, like the Lord, every truth 
that is given life in man is begotten of 
the Father, is conceived in virgin affec- 
tion, is wrapped in the swaddling clothes 
of natural ideas, is laid in the manger of 
the memory, grows and waxes strong in 
the grace of God to self-assertion, is 
crucified in temptation, is buried in the 
sepulchre of worldliness, and then rises 
to reign over our lives in power and 
glory. 

So the Word from beginning to end is 
to be read not as a production of man, 
but as the Word of God, teaching not 
historical truths, but spiritual truths, not 
loosely or by vague, uncertain inference, 
but with mathematical accuracy and 
definiteness. For all its teachings, when 
seen in the light of Correspondence, are 
confirmed by every reason that is, and 



54 THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 

are denied by none. The letter of the 
Word then becomes like a translucent 
cloud, reflecting Divine truth from the 
Lord just as a cloud does the colors that 
are in the sun. 



THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 55 



3, Things Heard and Seen 

In addition to the class of the Writings 
that explains the Word, which we have 
called Exegetical, there are the Supple- 
mentary Writings. These set forth not 
only the true philosophy of nature and 
of spirit, the laws of Divine Provi- 
dence, the doctrine of life, the consti- 
tution of the natural universe, but also 
they present the fundamental facts ap- 
pertaining to the spiritual world and life 
there. 

We can not in this short space repro- 
duce these things, for they should be 
examined in the entirety and complete- 
ness of their original presentation. 

The spiritual world is no longer a mys- 
tery. Having lived consciously in the 
spiritual world for twenty-seven years, 
Swedenborg was prepared to tell about 
that world as would a traveller from a 
foreign land. 



56 THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 

It is often said that we can not know 
any thing about the spiritual world, 
because no one has ever returned to tell 
us about it. The Lord has now made 
this statement untrue. That we might 
know about the spiritual world, He pre- 
pared one so that he went to, and came 
back from it many times. For, through 
the providence of the Lord, Sweden- 
borg was prepared and so constituted 
that while living in this world he also 
lived consciously and really in the spir- 
itual world, and could mingle with spir- 
its and angels. From such experience 
and association, what he reveals as 
having seen was not seen in vision or 
dream, but adually as we see and learn 
the things of this world, and as angels 
learn the things of the spiritual world. 
Swedenborg by the diredion of Provi- 
dence wrote down for the church on 
earth the things heard and seen. Not 
only are these rational and interesting, 
but they throw great light upon the 



THE NEW CHURCH— HOW 57 

Word. For that holy book is written 
with full implication of the spiritual world 
being as Swedenborg has described it. 
He gives us the three great divisions of 
that world, Heaven, Hell, and the Inter- 
mediate World of Spirits, He shows 
the relation that these bear to each 
other, which the Word implies. He 
discloses their relation to man and to 
this world, which relation the Word 
clearly assumes. What is written in 
this regard is rational, consistent with all 
we know, and in harmony with the 
Word. In fad: the Word is so written 
that in it is every truth of dodrine, con- 
sequently every truth of dodrine stated 
in the Writings of the church can be 
found there. To those who discern 
spiritual truths, the Writings of the 
church prove the Word, and the Word 
proves the Writings. 



Ill 

WHY 

TH E New Church is now instituted 
because that stage of human devel- 
opment is reached when a new 
and spiritual era can be entered. 

When the Lord was upon earth He 
said, " I have yet many things to say 
unto you, but ye can not bear them 
now." Then mankind was not able to 
receive or to comprehend a full disclo- 
sure of Divine truth. There was no 
interest in spiritual things. The Lord 
came with a spiritual kingdom of spirit- 
ual glory and power, but the world 
wanted a natural kingdom of physical 
glory and power. So it crucified Him 
who stood for spiritual law, life and 
power. Yet the beginning was insti- 
tuted, and preparation was made by rev- 
elation of truth given in the Lord's 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHY 59 

time. This preparation then made was 
but partial, because the revelation of 
truth could not, on account of the inter- 
nal states of the world, be made in its 
fullness. The truths then revealed 
became obscured, and love perished, 
resulting in the church splitting into 
antagonistic sects. This brought to 
realization the need of a clear and full 
revelation of Divine truth. 

Therefore now the Second Coming of 
the Lord is made by a new revelation of 
truth, opening fully the Word, wherein 
is all life and truth. This makes the 
church a new church. 

The world has its well-ordered gov- 
ernments, guaranteeing justice, liberty, 
and freedom of conscience, and is 
beginning to desire for pradical pur- 
poses a knowledge of internal and heav- 
enly law and life. This is the essential 
basis for a spiritual kingdom, which the 
New Church is to proclaim and to be. 



6o THE NEW CHURCH— WHY 



/. Its External Form, 

We are accustomed to think of a 
church as a body of people united upon 
a creed, like the Methodist church, the 
Episcopal church, or the Catholic 
church. Yet these are not churches, 
but they are different seds of one church, 
which was the ApostoHc Church. 

A church primarily is a form of good- 
ness and truth from the Lord in the 
lives of men. When a new dispensa- 
tion occurs, a new form of good and 
truth is revealed. This truth and good 
from the Lord constitute a church. To 
preserve and propagate a new form of 
truth and good, it is necessary that there 
be some who receive that truth and 
good, and keep it distind from the pre- 
ceding forms of faith. There are es- 
sential to a church, therefore, a new 
revelation of Divine truth and good, and 
a body of men and women who receive, 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHY 6 1 

stand for, teach, and live its truths. 
This necessitates the organization of an 
external body having its ministry to 
teach, its societies for worship and the 
cultivation in liberty of its distindive 
life, and all the officers of use appertain- 
ing to an organized church. 

To this end the New Church is organ- 
izing, educating its ministers, forming 
societies, instituting schools and col- 
leges, and endeavoring to teach, to live, 
and to form the life according to the 
truths of the new dispensation of 
heavenly revelation. The proclama- 
tion of the Second Coming of the Lord 
through the opening of His Word, the 
salvation of mankind through the power 
of the Lord in truth intelledually 
wielded, the presence of God face to 
face with man in the tabernacle of His 
Word, a heretofore unknown sandlity of 
His love in the heart, make the New 
Church different internally from any 
former church, and oblige it to have its 



62 THE NEW CHURCH— WHY 

distind, external organization and form, 
similar outwardly to former churches, 
but internally different, because of the 
quality of its faith and life that is to be 
developed and extended. 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHY 63 



2, Definite Doctrine 

The New Church comes, not only 
reaffirming old truth, but to affirm 
new truth, truth more interior and 
never before revealed. ^^ Behold, I 
make all things new/ So complete 
is this revelation that it gives access 
to all truth, which never before has 
been provided. It is therefore the 
most perfed and glorious revelation 
that has ever been made. It is the 
good wine saved until the last, when 
the marriage supper of the Lamb is 
come. 

Heretofore the states of developing 
man have been such that only partial 
truths have been made known. Truth 
has been held back because the develop- 
ment needed to make it useful had not 
occurred. In Scripture language it has 
been true of interior truths, " Ye cannot 
bear them now." 



64 THE NEW CHURCH— WHY 

However glorious was the mission 
and noble the work of the preceding 
church, its faith was and is necessarily 
an undeveloped faith, a faith akin to a 
hope for what was not known. Now 
faith is to be an intelligent faith, a faith 
that sees by means of definite and math- 
ematical dodrine. In the Ancient 
Church and in the Apostolic Church, 
God was not clearly understood. A 
mystery was a part of their faith ; and 
where mystery begins love ends. 

In the New Church, mystery is 
cleared away, and states of charity and 
peace must become correspondingly 
exalted. Here is definite dodrine that 
enables one to see clearly the essentials 
of faith. This church is shown plainly 
of the Godhead. It has definite doc- 
trine, making clear, rational, and intelli- 
gible [the foundation of religion, which 
is a right idea of God. 

The fundamental dodrine of the New 
Church in regard to God is that there is 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHY 65 

one God, and that the Lord Jesus 
Christ is that God. In Him is a trinity, 
not of persons, but of essentials, called 
the Father, the Son, and the Holy 
Spirit, represented in man, who is the 
image of God, by the soul, the body, 
and the proceeding life. Such as is 
one's idea of God, so is his whole reli- 
gion ; consequently Jesus said that the 
first and greatest commandment is, 
^^ The Lord our God is one Lord : and 
thou shalt love the Lord thy God with 
all thy heart. '^ This fundamental truth 
being clearly revealed, the use in the 
Word of different terms or names re- 
ferring to the Divine is understood, 
the entire Word is harmonized, and 
the nature of God as a Divine Hu- 
man Being is comprehended. This 
in turn makes intelHgible what man 
is, and his ordained relation to God 
and to man. Out of these unfolds 
the Lord's purpose with man here and 
hereafter. 



66 THE NEW CHURCH— WHY 

There is definite dodrine in regard 
to the law that rules over man as a 
natural and as a spiritual being. The 
natural world and life become clear to 
the understanding, and the spiritual 
world is comprehended as really and in- 
telligently as is the natural. 

The office of the church is shown to 
be the preserver of the Word of the 
Lord, the teacher of truth revealed from 
Him, and the saver of souls as a 
minister of the Lord by leading to the 
good of love. 

Baptism is revealed to be a Divine 
provision for introdudion into the 
church on earth, and at the same time 
insertion among Christians in the 
spiritual world. Its uses as an aid to 
regeneration are clearly made known. 

The institution of the Lord's Supper 
as a help to regenerating man, and as a 
means of the Lord's presence, our asso- 
ciation with angels, and conjunction with 
the Lord, is rationally unfolded. 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHY 67 

Repentance, which is essentially learn- 
ing the truth, shunning evil, and doing 
what truth teaches, is philosophically 
set forth. 

Salvation, which is the subjugation 
of evil in ourselves by the Lord's pre- 
sence and power, and the gift of love 
and joy in following the Lord and per- 
forming uses to human kind is intelli- 
gibly explained. 

In the full revelation of truth, there 
are now at hand and accessible to the 
final church every dodrine and truth of 
dodrine, rationally and satisfadorily ex- 
plained. Every provision is now made 
in this church for the enlightenment, 
regeneration, and salvation of mankind. 

In the New Church the Word is fully 
opened so that it is seen to be from God 
alone, and that it is so made that through 
it He communes with man, and reveals 
Himself fully by it, and by it alone. 

In the full revelation of the nature of 
heaven and of hell, of the wisdom and 



68 THE NEW CHURCH— WHY 

the love of God, of the destiny of man, 
and of the nature of the Heavenly 
Father, new motives for spiritual living 
are awakened, and all spiritual thirst can 
be satiated at living fountains of water. 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHY 69 



J. Its Growth 

Other churches have come and gone, 
but the New Church is the final church. 
It will never pass away or be superseded 
because to it is made the revelation of 
all truth, which gives access to all life. 
In it the Lord will be worshiped as 
He is in heaven, and ^^ of the increase 
of His government and peace there 
shall be no end," through the spiritual 
development and regeneration of men 
and women who are of it. 

The growth of the New Church will 
be slow, because its growth is not 
accomplished merely by the addition of 
numbers, but by the development of 
spiritual thought, affection, and life. 
Nor can the efforts of man alone extend 
it, for its healthy increase is founded 
upon the opening of the mind to com- 
prehend intellectually the things of 
heaven and of God. The Lord alone 



70 THE NEW CHURCH— WHY 

does this as He sees that man can be 
kept in the life of heavenly enlighten- 
ment to the end, which depends upon 
the quality of affection for truth. 

The growth of the New Church, 
though slow, will be sure and permanent. 
For its increase is not from masses of 
people moved by persuasion, excitement, 
or emotion to accept a statement of faith, 
but from the calm and resolute judgment 
made through enlightened reason and 
the insight into truth that comes from a 
love of its good. 

Its growth depends also upon another 
factor, which makes it sure and orderly. 
A new church depends upon a new 
heaven, which must be formed in the 
spiritual world to act as the soul of the 
New Church upon the earth. 

Heaven is so related to the earth that 
as the church in heaven increases by the 
addition of regenerating people passing 
from the earth, the church upon earth 
will grow. 



THE NEW CHURCH— WHY 71 

In reality there is but one kind of 
church growth that is to be desired, or 
that is possible, and that is the growth of 
the charader and spirit, the wisdom and 
love of the Lord Jesus in the minds and 
hearts of men. 

For this growth the New Church 
stands, and it commends for its accom- 
plishment the daily reading of the Word, 
and the Writings of the New Dispensa- 
tion, and the government of the indi- 
vidual life in accordance thereto. The 
church assures all who will do so, that 
their faith will be illumined until doubt 
turns into mental sight, and an unknown 
and unconceived blessing of Divine love 
and joy will be given, which is as " the 
days of heaven upon the earth." 



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